Washing-machine.



*'PATENTED SEPT. 29. 1903.

am warms un wmoumn Msmmrm o c No MODEL.

`vide a washing-machine' by means of which fue. indeed 1 UNITED v STATES atented September 29, 1963-.A

PATENT OFFICE.

PETER R. ENSMNGER, ANACONDA, MONTANA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE- FOURTH TO JOHN L. MAUOH, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

WASHINGQMACHINE.

f sPncIFcncrIon forming part of Len-,ers Patent No. 740,259, dated september 29, 1903.

Application ined nach 27, 190e.

To a/ZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, PETER R. ENSMINGER, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Anaconda, in the county of Deerlodge and State of Montana, have invented a new and Improved Washing-Machine,0f which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to improvements in washing-machines, the object being to profabrics may be rapidly and thoroughly washed by forcing the Water through the material by both compression and suction.

I will describe a washing-machine embodying my invention and then point out the novel features in the appended claims. Y'

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indi-` cate corresponding parts in both the figures.

Figure 1 is sectional elevation of a wash'- ing-machine embodying my invention, and Fig. 2 is a section on the line o: of Fig. 1.

Referring to the drawings, 1 designates the top or body portion of the washing-machine, in which is arranged a plurality of plungers.v I have here shown two plungers 2 3. On the top of the body portion is a lever 4, operated' by a shaft 5, having a iy-wheel 6 at its outer end, on which is a handle?. Y On the inner end of the ,shaft 5 is a crank V8, the pin ofi which extends into a slot 9, formedA in said lever 4. From the plunger 2 a rod 10 extends upward through an opening in the cover of the machine and is secured in a block 11, having a slight rotary motion in the lever 4. A similar rod l2 extends upward from the plunf ger 3 and is connected to'a block 13, having a slight rotary motion in the lever. The vertical movements of the plnngers may be regulated for thearticles under treatment by adjusting the rods in the blocks 11 and 13, and they may be held as adj usted by means of setscrews. The adjacent edges ofthe plungers are provided with upwardly-extended iianges 14 15. These flanges will serve to prevent the passing of material being operated upon between the plungers while moving up and down one relatively to the other. 0n the Vthe bottom 18 by means of springs 23.'

serial No. 149.825. vinformatie under sideof each plunger are transverse bars ,16, and the plungers are held in their vertical Vmovements by guidestrips 17, attached to the side walls of the body portion, the plungers beingv provided with notches to receive said guide-strips. Removably placed on the main bottom of the body portion is a supplemental bottom plate 18, and movable verticallywith Vrelation to the supplemental bottom underneath the plunger 2 is a perforated plate 19, which is provided with slots to receive bars 20, rigidly att-ached to the bottom 18, and springs 21 are arranged between said bottom 1S and the under side of the plate 19.

A similar perforated plate 22 is arranged underneath the plunger 3 and supported from This plate. 22 is also provided with slots to receive the iixed bars 24.

In the operation the material to be washed is placed in the body of the machine with the Water, and as the rods of the plungers are attached to the lever 4 at opposite sides of its pivotal point it is obvious that While one pl unger is moving Adownward the other will be moving upward. The plunger moving downward will force the water by pressure through the material, while the upwardly-moving plun- -ger will draw the water through the material by suction. The bars 16 are located in a vertical'plane between the' iixed bars of the perforated plates, and therefore these bars 16 as a plunger moves downward will cause a bending of the material under treatment over the fixed bars extended through the slots in the perforated plates, thus keeping the material in constant agitation and rubbing action.

It will be noted that there is a fixed bar 25 between the two perforated plates,\vhich will also serve the same purpose as thebars 2O and 24.

Having thus described my invention, I

claim as new and desire to secure by Lettersv l. A washing-machine comprising a body',`

the plungers, the said plates being provided with slots, and fixed bars passing into 'said slots.

2. A Washing-machine comprising a body,A

two plungers operating therein alternately in opposite directions, upwardly extended flanges on the adjacent edges of the plungers, transverse bars on the under sides of the plungers, a supplemental bottom in the body, perforated plates arranged below the plungers, spring connections between said plates and the supplemental bottom, the said plates being slotted, and bars attached to the supplemental bottom and extended into said slots.

I n testimony whereof I have signed my i 5 name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing Witnesses.

PETER R. ENSMINGER.

Witnesses:

JAMES BLAsBoRoUGH, JOHN W. JAMES. 

